write a book

Got just over 13,000 words now. I don’t know why but the early hours of this morning and this afternoon I suddenly had a surge of a couple thousand words.

I started writing down my “memoirs” so to speak about a year ago. I got up to about 25pages in Word font 12 TNR. My computer crashed and I lost that version. Thankfully I had 18pages backed up.
I stopped writing from the frustration of losing 7pages that took me a few months to write – yes I’m awful at writing so I’m stupid for challenging myself with this. I was always rubbish at writing essays, I’m a bullet-point person lol! I’m forever writing, editing, re-editing every time I open the file. Often I’ll have less words after a re-write on it but I’ll be happier with it.

I doubt I’ll get it published in the end; it’s more of a form of therapy to me, remembering what happened in my life and putting it to rest, closure. But yes, I’m currently on 23pages (11,170 words) and am gonna keep adding as and when.

This is a long-term goal for me, I’m not expecting to fly through it in a month or whatever.